From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 28 18:07:16 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:07:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B7mBD-0001y7-5r for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:07:11 -0800 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:07:11 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: another sentence to try the parser on Message-ID: <20040329020711.GL6569@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200403281403.04005.phma@webjockey.net> <20040328191009.GG6569@digitalkingdom.org> <200403282052.13196.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403282052.13196.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7383 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:52:13PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Sunday 28 March 2004 14:10, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > I can't see what this genstura is good for, except to translate > > > the King's remarks at the beginning of the chapter. > > > > It's actually just a side effect of being able to use 'naku' in > > general. > > {naku} can also be the object of a preposition or a tense marker, > which likewise makes no sense: > > mi viska sera'a naku le gerku .i canaku mi klama le zarci I would read that as "zi'o", myself. > {le gerku be naku cu klama le panka} is also grammatical, but it > should be, since {le gerku be naku} is just {gerku naku} turned into a > sumti. What does "gerku naku" mean then? I can't remember. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui